History
Bungo-Taketa Station opened on 15 October 1924 as the new western terminus of Japanese Government Railways' Inukai Line, originally read "Bungo-Takeda" — voiced reading — with the same kanji it carries today. It became a through-station on 30 November 1925 when the line reached Tamarai, and on 2 December 1928 the consolidated track was redesignated the Hōhi Main Line. The pronunciation was officially changed to the modern "Bungo-Taketa" on 1 October 1969. Control passed to JR Kyushu at the 1987 JNR privatisation, when the station building was simultaneously remodelled in samurai-residence style in homage to nearby Oka Castle.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Since 14 May 1951 the station has played Rentarō Taki's melody "Kōjō no Tsuki" — written about nearby Oka Castle — at train arrivals, a tradition continued to the present day.